A movement towards universal health coverage (UHC) - ensuring that everyone who needs health services is able to get them, without undue financial hardship  has been growing across the globe (1). This has led to a sharp increase in the demand for expertise... See More +A movement towards universal health coverage (UHC) - ensuring that everyone who needs health services is able to get them, without undue financial hardship  has been growing across the globe (1). This has led to a sharp increase in the demand for expertise, evidence and measures of progress and a push to make UHC one of the goals of the post-2015 development agenda (2). This paper proposes a framework for tracking country and global progress towards UHC; its aim is to inform and guide these discussions and assessment of both aggregate and equitable coverage of essential health services as well as financial protection. Monitoring progress towards these two components of UHC will be complementary and critical to achieving desirable health outcome goals, such as ending preventable deaths and promoting healthy life expectancy and also reducing poverty and protecting household incomes.
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